From the President’s Desk
IN Rep. Matt Lehman, NCOIL President
Welcome to the first quarterly edition of FROM THE PRESIDENT’S DESK of 2021, as I begin my second term as NCOIL President. If you didn’t attend the NCOIL Annual meeting last month, or didn’t receive a briefing on the meeting from those who did attend, you may have read that first sentence and thought April Fools Day had arrived early. Yet the first sentence is indeed true; as characters from Michael Corleone to Sylvio Dante to George Costanza have said, “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.” Seriously though, my fellow Officers and I are honored that the NCOIL membership decided to hold us in our respective positions for 2021 due to the Thomas B. Considine NCOIL CEO Asm. Ken Cooley, CA Vice President unprecedented nature of the times brought about by the global pandemic throughout 2020.
So, here I am writing to you as I begin this second term, just as excited as I was last year and hopeful that 2021 will be a far more normal year than 2020.
On a related note, I have decided to reappoint the 2020 Committee Chairs and Vice Chairs because I believe it is the logical extension of the Officers being held over, and because they all have done a great job in their respective positions. I did have to make a few new appointments due to vacancies and other issues arising and those are as follows: The Vice Chair of the Articles of Incorporation & Bylaws Revision Committee will be Sen. Shawn Vedaa (ND), the Vice Chair of the Audit Committee will be Rep. Richard Smith (GA), and the Vice Chair of the Life Insurance & Financial Planning Committee will be Rep. Wendi Thomas (PA).
Download to read more